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The History of Rome, Book V

CHAPTER VII
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It seemed as if the fate which had befallen the Cimbri still pursued even this last Cimbrian fragment.

Caesar contented himself with imposing on the other subdued tribes a general disarmament and furnishing of hostages.

The Remi became naturally the leading canton in Belgic, like the Haedui in central Gaul; even in the latter several clans at enmity with the Haedui preferred to rank among the clients of the Remi.

Only the remote maritime cantons of the Morini (Artois) and the Menapii (Flanders and Brabant), and the country between the Scheldt and the Rhine inhabited in great part by Germans, remained still for the present exempt from Roman invasion and in possession of their hereditary freedom.
Expeditions against the Maritime Cantons Venetian War The turn of the Aremorican cantons came.

In the autumn of 697 Publius Crassus was sent thither with a Roman corps; he induced the Veneti--who as masters of the ports of the modern Morbihan and of a respectable fleet occupied the first place among all the Celtic cantons in navigation and commerce--and generally the coast-districts between the Loire and Seine, to submit to the Romans and give them hostages.


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